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1. OnsiteEarly American Imprints. Series 1, Evans (1639-1800)

Readex and American Antiquarian Society: Covering American history and literature through the colonial period to 1800, this database is a full-text digitisation of the microform set, Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography. For decades, the collection has served as the definitive resource of information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, slavery, temperance, witchcraft and just about any other topic imaginable. Also available on microform in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room.

2. OnsiteEarly American Imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)

Readex: Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and now supplemented by thousands of new items, allows students and scholars to explore the development of the American nation as never before. Also available on microform in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room.

3. OnsiteEarly American Newspapers. Series I, 1690-1876.

Readex: Web-based archive of Americana that features images and full-text content from many historical newspapers. Based largely on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, it concentrates primarily on those papers that began publication before 1820. Also available on microform in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room.

4. LicencedEarly English Books Online

Bell & Howell Information and Learning: Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. EEBO contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Key works and authors include: Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Boyle, Newton, Galileo, Aphra Behn, Anne Killigrew, and Margaret Cavendish, earliest editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Malory's Morte d'Arthur and Nicholas Culpeper's The English Physician (1652), royal statutes and proclamations, military, religious, legal, Parliamentary, and other public documents, almanacs and calendars, broadsides and romances, plus popular pamphlets such as The Trail of Witchcraft, Showing the True and Righte Method of Discovery (1616), Book of Common Prayer (1549), and The King James translation of the Bible (1611). Also available on microfilm at mfm 790 (Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room).

5. OnsiteEBSCOHost Electronic Journals Service

EBSCO: Subjects covered include agriculture, education, fine arts, general works, geography, anthropology, recreation, history, language and literature, law, library science, medicine, military and naval science, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, political science, science, social sciences , and technology.

6. LicencedEconomist historical archive 1843-2003

Gale: In more than 8,000 issues since first publication in 1843, The Economist has presented timely reporting, concise commentary and comprehensive analysis of global news every week. With objective authority, clarity and wit, The Economist presents the world's political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments and the connections between them. Because of its global editorial perspective, it is read by more of the world's political and business leaders than any other magazine. The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. New full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week - all combine to offer a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries.

7. FreeEDGAR Database (U.S. Companies)

Uniteed States: Securities and Exchange Commission: An index to the returns required of U.S. registered companies to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

8. OnsiteEDGE - Database Management and Environment

Informit: The EDGE database is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles that provide international coverage on management, environmental, packaging and building topics. Subject coverage: Strategic and financial management techniques; human resources; Asian economies; energy efficiency; recycling; packaging trends and methods for glass, plastic, metal and paper; and building products and trends. Packaging issues for end use markets such as food and beverages are also included. Source documents: Selected informative and practical articles are abstracted and included in EDGE from approximately 80 journals.

9. FreeEdNA: Education Network Australia

EdNA is a Website pointing to thousands of resources identified and contributed by Australian educators. It networks the bodies responsible for Australian education. Discussions and noticeboards are offered on the site, making it a meta-network of Australian education practitioners. Its services create communities of educators online - further networks. EdNA covers the schools, vocational education and training, adult community education and higher education sectors. Through the EdNA forums, the Australian education systems and sectors collaborate on a range of online education, communications and information technology issues.

10. FreeEdResearch Online

ACER Cunningham Library: EdResearch Online is an easily searchable database containing 13,467 research articles and documents. It is an online subset of the Australian Education Index. Documents include journal articles, research reports, government reports, theses, conference proceedings and papers.

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